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Virus wipes out 5 years of U.S economic growth

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:53 — mike kraft

The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday as the government detailed the most devastating three-month collapse on record, which wiped away nearly five years of growth.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced, fell 9.5 percent in the second quarter of the year as consumers cut back spending, businesses pared investments and global trade dried up, the Commerce Department said.

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Coronavirus hotspots ease, but officials warn normal is a long way off

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:26 — mike kraft

Coronavirus hotspots ease, but officials warn normal is a long way off The number of new coronavirus infections in some of the states hit hardest by the pandemic in the last month is easing, but public health officials warn that widespread transmission is still taking Reid Wilson TheHill

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European drugmakers Sanofi and GSK strike $2.1 billion deal with U.S. for a coronavirus vaccine

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:15 — mike kraft

European drugmakers Sanofi and GSK strike $2.1 billion deal with U.S. for a coronavirus vaccine The contract is the largest yet from the U.S. government. Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post

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Trump planning for U.S. rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:04 — mike kraft

Trump planning for U.S. rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration's lack of planning for its nationwide distribution. Richard Cowan U.S.

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Trump urges people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate blood plasma

Thu, 2020-07-30 20:36 — mike kraft

Trump urges people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate blood plasma Blood plasma from people who have successfully recovered from coronavirus infection has been widely used in the United States, even though researchers are still gathering evidence to definitively show it works. Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post

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These 13 states need to lock down now, according to Harvard coronavirus experts

Thu, 2020-07-30 13:57 — mike kraft

A report released this week by the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force warns that 21 states are now in the “red zone” and need to take aggressive steps to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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UPDATE: California and Florida hit new daily record high coronavirus deaths

Thu, 2020-07-30 08:45 — mike kraft

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The Coronavirus Could Dodge Some Treatments, Study Suggests

Wed, 2020-07-29 18:45 — mike kraft

In a laboratory in New York City, researchers coaxed a key piece of the coronavirus — its infamous outer “spike” — to mutate so that it became invisible to disease-fighting antibodies, according to a new study that has not yet been published in a scientific journal.

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INTERNATIONAL: Early in the pandemic, doctors traded tips across international boundaries

Wed, 2020-07-29 17:47 — mike kraft

Early in pandemic, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans Amid the chaos of the pandemic’s early days, doctors who faced the first coronavirus onslaught reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to... AP NEWS

Amid the chaos of the pandemic’s early days, doctors who faced the first coronavirus onslaught reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to save lives in the dark.

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U.S. virus pandemic splintering into many pieces

Wed, 2020-07-29 15:54 — mike kraft

Once again, the coronavirus is ascendant. As infections mount across the country, it is dawning on Americans that the epidemic is now unstoppable, and that no corner of the nation will be left untouched.

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